The Press House

Ten years ago, a young man vanished from her family's press house. This week, a food critic came home to find out why - and never left the building alive.

Del Hartley has spent a decade telling herself Callum Reyes simply walked away from Hollow Creek. Then Warren Locke returns for the Harvest Festival with a theory about that last night, asks for the press house as his private office, and turns up dead in almost the exact spot Callum was last seen.

As Sheriff Dana Ruiz digs into two cases that suddenly look like one, Del is forced to reexamine every soft, comfortable lie her town has told itself for ten years - including the ones closest to home. The truth buried in the orchard's old windbreak is going to cost her family more than she ever imagined.

What's inside:

• A dual-timeline amateur-sleuth mystery weaving a present-day murder into a decade-old disappearance

• An orchard-and-harvest-festival setting rich with atmosphere and small-town history

• A heroine forced to choose between family loyalty and the truth

• A fair-play mystery with clues planted from the very first chapter

• A closed-door story - cozy in tone, honest about grief, no graphic content

Perfect for readers who love small-town mysteries with real emotional weight, cold-case threads, and a heroine willing to ask the hard question everyone else avoided for years. If you enjoy layered whodunits set against orchards, festivals, and family secrets, The Press House will stay with you long after the last chapter.